bruce gave us a 60 days and i think strobe for minicam to us. and we concluded quite simply that america's basic national security interests were at stake. in these two countries. this was not vietnam where the vietcong posed no direct threat to the american homeland. it was not iraq where saddam hussein similarly did not oppose a direct threat. this was an area where attacks on our soil and other countries, including pakistan itself, and the people out there've had said very clearly they would do it again as the new mass on christmas day demonstrates so fully. in fact, this particular person was not trained in pakistan does not change the fact that the aspiration for all of this comes from al qaeda, and al qaeda's leadership is based in the remotest areas on the afghanistan-pakistan border. so we concluded without any dissent that this was a national security issue, and we could not walk away from it. the second question was, therefore, what do we do about it? the answer has been laid out in a series of speeches and public statements by preside